Web Integrator

Are you tired of working on outdated technology in archaic ways, but find no one listens when you are suggesting better ways of doing things?

Pheromone, the interaction agency, was founded 16 years ago, pioneering the web and our industry. This spirit of pioneering lives on within all of us at the agency. The agency’s ever growing portfolio is built on the combined talent of our team on the fields of strategy, design and most importantly for you, development.

Since the very first days of the inception of the World Wide Web, it is creativity and innovation that drives technology forward. Pheromone’s offers a very human environment where innovation thrives, and it is for this environment that we are now searching for new, fresh talent.

Experienced Web Integrator
We are looking for an experienced Web integrator to work with our production team on various projects: Web site integration, maintenance of existing sites, etc.

Phéromone’s benefits
- Health and dental benefits
- Flexible hours
- Open work space
- Ability to work from home
- Close to metro, bus and bixi station
- Indoor parking for bicycle
- Creative work environment
- Start-up atmosphere
- Research and development projects
- Fruits every morning! And best espresso in town!

Responsibilities
- Creating dynamic interface elements (HTML/CSS/DHTML/Javascript, HTML5/CSS3, etc.)
- Photoshop and Illustrator clipping
- Integrating page models in various content management tools
– Developing technical solutions with the developer
- Enhancing user interfaces based on initial design and technical specifications

General Criteria
- Attention to detail
- Self-reliance and creativity
- Timeliness
- Ability to work simultaneously on several projects
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Good analytical and problem solving skills
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Web project integration

Assets
- HTML + Advanced CSS, HTML5 + CSS3
- Good knowledge of Javascript
- Excellent knowledge of Web accessibility standards and W3C recommendations
- Experience working with Prototype/Script.aculo.us/MooTools/Jquery libraries
- Proficiency in Photoshop
- Ability in Web design is an asset

If you are interested in this great opportunity and if you would like to be part of a dynamic team, please send your application to emploi@pheromone.ca.

Drupal Developer

Are you tired of working on outdated technology in archaic ways, but find no one listens when you are suggesting better ways of doing things?

Pheromone, the interaction agency, was founded 16 years ago, pioneering the web and our industry. This spirit of pioneering lives on within all of us at the agency. The agency’s ever growing portfolio is built on the combined talent of our team on the fields of strategy, design and most importantly for you, development.

Since the very first days of the inception of the world wide web, it is creativity and innovation that drives technology forward. Pheromone’s offers a very human environment where innovation thrives, and it is for this environment that we are now searching for new, fresh talent.

Experienced Drupal developer
We are currently looking for experienced Drupal developers to maintain and develop new functionality on our many Drupal websites. Candidates must be able to work independently, demonstrate initiative, take direction and collaborate well with others.

Phéromone’s benefits
- Health and dental benefits
- Flexible hours
- Open work space
- Ability to work from home
- Close to metro, bus and bixi station
- Indoor parking for bicycle
- Creative work environment
- Start-up atmosphere
- Research and development projects
- Fruits every morning! And best espresso in town!

Responsibilities
- Developing new modules
- Maintaining current code base
- Participate in the continuous improvement of the product
- Documenting code
- Applying updates and security fixes

General Criteria
- Fast learner
- Attention to details
- Autonomous and creative
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Good problem solver, analytic
- Minimum 1 year experience in Drupal or 2 years experience with PHP

Assets
- Experience with other open source CMS
- Experience with other programming languages (Ruby, Python)
- Experience with mobile development (Android, Blackberry, iPhone)

If you are interested in this great opportunity and if you would like to be part of a dynamic team, please send your application to emploi@pheromone.ca.

David Rollert

has nearly 30 years of experience with interactive design and UX, beginning in 1981 as a designer and editor at Time Inc in New York where he contributed to an ambitious teletext information system. He was vice president of software development at Lexica Corporation (1984-85), creating PC and videotex applications. Starting in 1985, he was VP and humanware director at Citibank’s development division, where he founded and led Citibank’s central user interface design group. In 1991, he joined Ziff-Davis, where he was design director for a pioneering graphical online service that influenced much early web design. From 1997-2002, he established the worldwide UX practice at the agency Digitas in Boston. From 2002 to 2006, he was VP and design director at Fidelity Investments in Boston, leading major web and financial advice tools design teams. He founded his independent design firm, designtangible, in 2006. Working primarily in Montreal since 2008, he joined Phéromone in November 2009, where he leads the design team.

Why an interaction agency?

Communication is being redefined around networks and conversations. New technologies are turning practices and media on their heads. Your business strategy and your marketing efforts have to take this into account. We can help.
Why the interaction agency?
Consumers have had it with one-way, institutional communication. They want a dialogue with organizations and their brands. At the same time, social networks, web 2.0, SMS, virtual worlds, smartphones and other interactive spaces are turning the world of marketing and communications on its head. To meet these challenges, VDL2 has become Pheromone, an interaction agency that helps customers harness the power of conversations and networks.
An Internet strategy pioneer recognized for the many successful initiatives of its customers (VIA Rail, RDS, ARTV, Sépaq and others), the agency has extended its interactivity expertise to brand strategy and creation, advancing its vision of a society that revolves increasingly around human interactions, to offers its customers a full range of services to help them take advantage of this new world.
Why Pheromone?
Pheromones are the oldest and most subtle form of communication among living beings, including humans. Scientists have identified different families of pheromones, some of which act as a sort of biological GPS, some of which act as alert systems and others that influence attraction and seduction. All of them are indispensable to the functioning of a community. Similarly, Pheromone delivers different families of services to tackle the business and marketing challenges confronting businesses of today and tomorrow.
Pheromone has a multicultural team of 50 people who work in synergy in over 15 fields. It has honed a dynamic of close collaboration with customers to identify avenues for success, mobilize communities around brands, create spaces for intelligent interaction and inspire emotion, thought and participation.

The team

Pheromone is a multicultural team of 70 people in over 15 fields of expertise, working together in synergy and in close collaboration with customers.

History

Launched 15 years ago by Internet pioneers, Pheromone is today one of the 10 largest advertising agencies in Quebec.
In 1994, the Internet emerged from university labs, the Government of Quebec was not yet online, and companies wanted multimedia versions of their brochures. This was the context in which we founded our agency. It was called VDL2 and its mission was to help organizations gain strategic advantage from the Internet. Our mission meant that we had to set concrete objectives for each project, make the Internet central to the strategy for achieving them and develop an obsession for measuring results.
Our first customer was a New York company that we developed a secure e-commerce site for in the fall of 1994. The same year, we made VIA Rail Canada the first railway company in the world to have a home on the web. Its site quickly developed as a model for the industry. Fifteen years later, we are still responsible for e-marketing on its website, which generates over half of its revenues.
In the years that followed, we racked up world and Canadian firsts on the web, in particular for TV5 Québec Canada, a leading channel in Canadian and the top French-language station worldwide, and the Montréal Exchange, the first stock exchange in the world to offer quotes every 15 minutes.
In 1997, the Réseau des Sports (RDS) gave us carte blanche to explore the interactive universe via the web. We decided to design a site that was independent of the TV channel by developing a decidedly community approach, where users produced a large part of the content (what’s known as web 2.0 today). Our efforts quickly made RDS.ca the most visited site in Quebec. Today, with over a billion page views, it surpasses every media site in Quebec and Canada.
In 1999 and 2000, the Cesam, which brings together the world leaders in technology, media and education, entrusted us to develop a number of forecasts on the television, learning and interactive games industries. These reports immediately became an international reference for these industries. It was the first time that our forecasting work went public; until that point it had been solely for our customers.
Given the enthusiasm generated by this publication, we launched «Tendances VDL2», an annual forecast of the impact of the Internet on a number of industries and sectors, accompanied by a fact-based evaluation of how our previous predictions bore out. For ten years, these trends were the economic and media reference both in Quebec and in the rest of the French-speaking world.
In 2001, we developed the Internet strategy for the daily paper Le Devoir, which rapidly became the only North American daily whose Internet activities turn a profit. Today, while the newspaper industry is feeling the effects of the Internet, more and more and press groups are considering a strategy similar to the one we implemented at the time for the Bleury Street daily.
The same year, we moved to the Cité du Multimédia where we inaugurated our new high-availability website operations centre, the result of two years of R&D on emerging technologies in the area of redundancy, load balancing and database management. We became the first web server centre in Quebec to provide an unconditional guarantee of 99% availability and performance for our customers’ websites. Today, our hosting infrastructure combines two redundant server rooms, a content delivery network for cache management and acceleration and a cloud computing infrastructure to delegate specific power needs.
In 2007, our customers chose to make the Internet a major component of their business strategy and asked us to support them in tackling this new challenge. VDL2 quickly grew from 35 to 50 employees and made the move to web 2.0 in terms of its skills, technologies and methods.
In 2009, VDL2 was one of the 10 main advertising agencies in Quebec. On August 27, it became Pheromone, an interaction agency that helps customers harness the power of conversations and networks.